Mika to Frank Luntz: You Expect Dems to Applaud ‘the Great Dictator’ for Econ Growth?!

LUNTZ: “I think you have a fair point. And yet, why can’t people give him credit for what has happened? Why can’t they give him credit for his speech that went — that people had a chance to see — if you’re a Democrat, there was something there for you, if you’re a Republican, there’s something there for you, that it has specifics. It —”

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BRZEZINSKI: “I think because he’s literally screwed everybody in that room over a few times too many. He’s been vulgar, he’s been racist.”

BRZEZINSKI: “He has accused one of the senators in that room of giving sexual favors for money. He’s insulted the wife of a Republican senator in that room in the worst way possible.”

LUNTZ: “What about the speech?”

BRZEZINSKI: “Your job, what you do —“

LUNTZ: “What about the speech?”

BRZEZINSKI: “— Frank, is you read rooms. You tell me —“

LUNTZ: “What about the speech?”

BRZEZINSKI: “— that that room is supposed to respond like this [applauds] to the great dictator?”

LUNTZ: “No, but they’re not supposed to sit on their hands.”

BRZEZINSKI: “Really? I’m not sure.”

LUNTZ: “And I’m sorry but — but using a phrase great dictator is not appropriate.”

BRZEZINSKI: “Well that’s how he feels of himself.”

LUNTZ: “You know, this is — this is my challenge, which is I am willing to speak truth to power. I’m willing to challenge him, but I’m not willing to dismiss everything in him. I think that that’s the — that’s the problem.”

About the AuthorRusty Weiss

Rusty Weiss is a freelance journalist focusing on the conservative movement and its political agenda. He has been writing conservatively charged articles for several years in the upstate New York area, and his writings have appeared in the Daily Caller, American Thinker, FoxNews.com, Big Government, the Times Union, and the Troy Record. He is also Editor of one of the top conservative blogs of 2012, the Mental Recession.

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